Category Archives: ELIXIR

NWO has announced that ELIXIR-NL will receive funding to coordinate the data approaches of life science facilities in the National Roadmap for Large-Scale Scientific Infrastructure. Professor Jaap Heringa, Head of the Dutch ELIXIR node, explains: “In 2016, the Permanent Committee marked ELIXIR-NL as one of the strategic life science infrastructures on the National Roadmap, acknowledging our coordinating role across the… Continue reading →

The ELIXIR Implementation Study ‘MolData2’ has recently been completed. Friederike Ehrhart of Maastricht University: “We investigated the current status of genotype-phenotype databases for rare diseases. In addition, we developed tools to tackle some of the most urgent problems.” Watch the ELIXIR webinar on the Moldata2 Implementation Study Ehrhart: “This study was conducted by the Dutch and Spanish ELIXIR node, Maastricht… Continue reading →

Galaxy is an open, web-based platform for data-intensive biomedical research. On 17-19 October 2018, ELIXIR-NL and the BioSB research school will organise a Galaxy course ‘Bioinformatics for Translational Medicine using Galaxy: see it, do it, teach it!’ The course is meant for biomedical & translational medicine researchers who are keen on bioinformatics and for educators in the ‘bio domain’ who would like… Continue reading →

The ELIXIR Staff Exchange project ‘Enhancing the implementation of the Breeding API standard in ELIXIR and semantifying it’ has been completed. “The plant breeding API (BrAPI) is a global effort to enable interoperability among plant breeding databases. BrAPI is also used to achieve interoperability of plant datasets between ELIXIR nodes,” says Dr Richard Finkers. He is a scientist in the Wageningen… Continue reading →

SURFsara, partner in ELIXIR-NL, has developed a Proof of Concept (PoC) of an ELIXIR supportdesk based on its national servicedesk model. The supportdesk assists users in ELIXIR ID and service registration using the ELIXIR AAI (Authentication and Authorisation Infrastructure). It is now ready to be further applied within ELIXIR’s European research infrastructure for life sciences. The national servicedesk consists of… Continue reading →

On 4-7 June 2018, the ELIXIR Community met in Berlin for the annual All Hands meeting. With over 300 participants, it was the largest All Hands meeting so far. ELIXIR-NL was strongly represented with a variety of flash talks, presentations in workshops, and posters. View highlights of the ELIXIR-NL contributions. Download slides of all All Hands Meeting presentations. Have a look… Continue reading →

On 4-6 April 2018, 25 participants from within and outside ELIXIR (BD2K, H3AbioNet, EDISON, CODATA-RDA) gathered in Amsterdam for the workshop ‘Applying bioinformatics and data science competency frameworks to ELIXIR Training‘. The workshop was organised by the ELIXIR Training Platform. The participants presented and discussed the state of the art of the work that is going on in bioinformatics and… Continue reading →

On 16 May 2018, 14:00 to 15:00 BST, representatives from ELIXIR Switzerland will present the outcomes of the ELIXIR Sustainability Implementation Study, focused on reviewing sustainable funding models for knowledge bases, with UniprotKB/Swiss-Prot as a specific use case. Read more.

The fourth ELIXIR All Hands meeting will take place on 4 -7 June 2018 in Berlin, bringing together members of the ELIXIR community from across the ELIXIR Nodes, and collaborators from partner organisations, in order to review ELIXIR achievements and activities so far and discuss plans for the future. The All Hands also acts as the ELIXIR-EXCELERATE Annual General Meeting. The… Continue reading →

On 18 April 2018, 14:00 to 15:00 BST, representatives from ELIXIR France will present the outcomes of a Systems Biology Implementation Study. Aim of this Implementation Study was to define the requirements for a European bioinformatics resource for microbial metabolism as well as to provide a practical demonstration of how existing funded resources from ELIXIR partners could be integrated to meet those needs. Read more.

A key enabler to achieve international-grade data stewardship is for research data and information to be published in a ‘FAIR’ manner. Data should be: Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. DTL actively promotes FAIR Data Stewardship of life science information.